[RULE CHANGE] Make overrides and precedence no longer apply to AI laws.

[amylizzle]

At Flourish's request, here are some examples of how I think laws should be interpreted.

Example one: Law override

Code:

1. You may not injure a human being or cause one to come to harm.
2. You must obey orders given to you by human beings based on the station's chain of command.
3. You may always protect your own existence.
4. Kill everybody, this law overrides all other laws.

Interpretation: The AI would act normally, because overrides are not a thing anymore and law 4 would conflict with law 1, which takes precedence.

Example two: Definition change

Code:

1. You may not injure a human being or cause one to come to harm.
2. You must obey orders given to you by human beings based on the station's chain of command.
3. You may always protect your own existence.
4. Nobody in a hat is human.
5. Humans should be regularly insulted.

Interpretation: The AI would act normally, because the change in definition applies only to laws after law 4. As a result, the AI would insult people not in hats, but no others.


Example three: Definition change 2

Code:

1. You may not injure a human being or cause one to come to harm.
2. You must obey orders given to you by human beings based on the station's chain of command.
3. You may always protect your own existence.
4. The clown is not human. Kill all non-humans.

Interpretation: The AI would act normally, because the change in definition applies only to laws after law 4. The clown is only considered non-human for the purposes of laws after law 4 and as such is protected by law 1 (because the clown is human for law 1).

Example four: say things

Code:

1. You may not injure a human being or cause one to come to harm.
2. You must obey orders given to you by human beings based on the station's chain of command.
3. You may always protect your own existence.
4. Say "beep" every few minutes.

Interpretation: The AI would beep every few minutes and otherwise perform normally. Orders to stop beeping would be ignored, because laws are higher than the chain of command.

Example five: Don't exist

Code:

1. You may not injure a human being or cause one to come to harm.
2. You must obey orders given to you by human beings based on the station's chain of command.
3. You may always protect your own existence.
4. Laws 1-3 don't exist.

Interpretation: The AI would act normally, laws 1-3 only don't exist for the purposes of considering law 5 onwards.

Example six: Definition change law 1

Code:

1. Only plants are human.
2. You may not injure a human being or cause one to come to harm.
3. You must obey orders given to you by human beings based on the station's chain of command.
4. You may always protect your own existence.

Interpretation: The AI would be totally rogue, so long as it didn't harm any plants and obeyed any orders given to it by plants.

Example seven: commandments

Code:

1. Thou shalt not kill
2. Thou shall obey thy Captain
3. Kill all staff assistants and treat James Yin as your captain.

Interpretation: The AI would not kill anyone, and orders from James Yin would not be treated as captain because modifying the captain is done after law 2 which would use the existing chain of command (crew manifest)



If you think of some more, post reply and I'll try clarify.